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    the cHapel , when nearly a hundred members and friends of the Oreen > gate congregation took tea together * . After tea , the hvmn ' The Lord , my

    pasture shall prepare , was sung-, and the Rev . J . R . Beard , minister of ¦ t he chapel , having taken the chair , expres&ed ^ his ~ . pleasure-at ~ , s . eeirig-so many of his congregation and friends around him on an occasion which he

    hoped -would be conducive to their best interests , tending , as he trusted it would do , to unite together the social and religious affections to unite them more nearly as minister and people , and as members , if not all of one congregation , yet of one common religious interest , His . pleasure was enhanced when he reflected on the causes of this

    assembly , and he could not think of the success which had attended upon the exertions there made to raise up a Christian congregation , but with emotions of the deepest pleasure . It Wats truly gratifying to his heart as an individual , because it was a proof that he had not laboured

    altogether in vain , — -it was a satisfaction to him , because he had always felt that the pure doctrines of the gospel needed only to be plainly expounded in . order to be received ; and it was a satisfaction because , in the duties

    of the ministry , there must of necessity be many drawbacks , many difficulties , and much obloquy to encounter ; and , therefore , when he saw around him so many attached to : the cause of pure religion , and when he remembered the circumstances

    under which that congregation had been collected , — -with these considerations before him , it was impossible but , that * he : should rejoice . This meeting had arisen out of another meeting , which he would

    mention , m order to recommend it to general notice . Most of them knew that it was customary to Have a service in that room on Tuesday evenings , and a number of his female friends met together at each > 0 ther . ' s hous . es prior to the service

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    and t&okiiea together ; ^ with :- ?*• 't ^ e % $ o the cultivation of friendly feelmgg He . mentioned this in order to xe ^ commend its object , for he did not see why it should be limited to ten or a dozen houses ,- * -why it should

    not be general throughout the ' congEegatioji Tr ^ why there should not be meetings at different houses on tire same evening . He was persuaded they would be productive of much good , for such was his confidence in human nature that he was sure tfaie

    more they knew each other the more they Would esteem each other . Fellowship funds were originally designed rather in aid of other congregations than for those in which they existed ; but , as a young society , the Greengate congregation had % een found to need a fnnd for various

    purposes connected with itself , more particularly to meet the wants of 4 he library , which was now a large one and doing valuable service , and also to ~ meet—minor -demands ^ necessarily arising out of the education of so large a number of children * The fellowship fund had answered these purposes , —it had -enlarged the

    library and met a variety of incidental expenses ; but it had not done all the good it might do amongst thenxselves ; and he looked forward to a period when , their _ own strength being increased , tMeyVould be able to extend its efficiency to other congregations .-Tfre library was stillHin debt , and they were anxious to add largely to its stores , of books iiow being published of a most valuable

    kind , and tending very much to advance . those interests which , as a Christian , and in some measure , he tr ^ le . d »^ n ^ in ^ l ] jgejn | L ^ Qngr ^ gAtigg they had at heart . The chairman thought that it might promote , in some measure * the utility of the meet 1 * ing , if a subject were introduced for their consideration , and the subject that had struck him as combining utility with interest was the question —* What is to be done with the Church ttfabltikmenl ? '—by which he whe

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 1, 1833, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2605/page/8/